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Surface Transportation Innovations # 58

Topics include: USDOT's reform proposal; Congress stuck in old paradigm; further thoughts on McKinsey GHG report; America's second HOT network; how motorists are responding to high gas prices; premium lanes for New Jersey Turnpike; and other news.

By Robert Poole
August 1, 2008

Annual Study Ranks States on Highway Performance, Overall Cost-Effectiveness

Urban interstate highways in 35 states reach 40 percent congested and 24 percent of US bridges are deficient or functionally obsolete

July 31, 2008

Reason Alert: States Ranked on Road Conditions, Cost-Effectiveness

July 31, 2008

Poole: Open letter to elected officials

By Samuel Staley
July 30, 2008

Data chronicle how people adapt to higher gas prices

By Samuel Staley
July 29, 2008

Belarus continues it’s privatization program

By Anthony Randazzo
July 29, 2008

Alan Pisarski–We’ll adjust to rising gas prices

By Samuel Staley
July 29, 2008

California’s High-Speed Rail Plan Wildly Overestimates Ridership Numbers

Real costs of rail are downplayed

By Adam Summers
July 29, 2008

Earmarks: The Alien Menace

New Reason.tv video shows how billions earmarks and pork projects help create $490 billion deficit

July 29, 2008

New Private Prison in Oklahoma

By Anthony Randazzo
July 28, 2008

California’s High-Speed Rail Plan Overestimates Ridership Numbers

By Katie Hooks
July 28, 2008

Public-Private Partnerships in Transportation

Testimony to the Pennsylvania House Transportation Committee

By Shirley Ybarra
July 28, 2008

Housing “crisis” in question

By Anthony Randazzo
July 27, 2008

Auto-Mobility Trumps Transit–Even on a Bike

By Samuel Staley
July 27, 2008

San Francisco proposes car ban on Market Street

By Samuel Staley
July 23, 2008

No New Taxes and Building Roads in Virginia

State should put private capital to work solving our transportation problems

By Shirley Ybarra
July 23, 2008

A Carbon-Free Electricity System in 10 Years

Gore energy plan may signal the twilight of free economies

By Samuel Staley
July 22, 2008

Don’t dump the SUV–yet

By Samuel Staley
July 21, 2008